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To: JohnM who wrote (29243)	5/11/2002 10:54:14 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I agree that if I were doing post-9/11 "greatest hits" collection, I'd include this piece. And I would also, like you, include the Doran piece from FA. I'd include Zakaria's two Newsweek cover stories. I'd throw in the Steve Walt essay from the winter issue of International Security, and the Dick Betts piece from the spring Political Science Quarterly. I'd include the Pollack FA piece on Iraq. I think the How Did This Happen? book had a number of good essays on the policy side of things that still hold up, including Betts, Flynn, Wechsler, and Easterbrook. I might include the Michael Howard piece from FA as a caution; if not, I'd find something good on the skeptical side of things. Maybe a few other pieces that I can't remember now, but that's about it, I think. BTW, Judith Butler's book Freudian slip? I think you mean Judy Miller... :0) tb@nopomo.com

To: JohnM who wrote (29243)	5/11/2002 10:57:58 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

the language of class struggle is not limiited to Marxism No, indeed not. You don't have to be a Marxist to see that as the working class got the vote and the labor movement got organized, that transformed the fight over monetary policy in the United States and in Europe. Under classic laissez faire/gold standard, if a country experienced a trade imbalance, the way to rectify that was to lower prices, cut wages, and lay off workers. Politically unthinkable now, as you have expressed. The number one human motivation is self-interest - "what about me?" However the Islamists work to achieve that goal, that's what they want. That's what everyone wants. If there are two classes, there is going to be class struggle.